Life Cycles: Dr. Gil Blander, Inside Tracker Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, on Healthspan, High Performance and the Role Cycling Plays in his Creative Process

Dr. Gil Blander is the founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Inside Tracker. Inside Tracker brings together blood biometric data, DNA insights and fitness tracker data to create science-backed action plans for people to manage their health and performance. Dr. Blander has a PhD in biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at MIT. He’s an expert in nutrition, performance, biochemistry and aging research. You can learn more at www.insidetracker.com and find Dr. Blander on Twitter @gblander1.This episode is part of Life Cycles, a new series I’ve launched within Choose the Hard Way. Conversations in this series cover the territory you’ve come to expect from Choose the Hard Way--lessons learned at the limits of human experience and the obstacles people overcome to do great things--with guests whose lives and careers have been shaped by cycling or whose lives and careers have shaped the world of cycling.  Since I launched this podcast in 2018, there have been many episodes that fit into this loose framework and I’ve gotten great feedback from you about them, so it felt like it was time to go deeper in this direction. Cycling has always been an important part of my life as a method of exploration, expression and connection and I’m excited to share these conversations with you. I’ll still have regular episodes that have nothing to do with cycling at all and whether you like bikes or not, I think you’ll find something to love in every episode. Please leave us an iTunes review (even one word is great) and subscribe and give the show a five-star rating on Spotify or iTunes. I love bringing you the stories of my guests and I really appreciate you taking a second to support the show which helps more people find it. Go to www.choosethehardway.com to sign up for the newsletter and if you have feedback or would like to suggest a guest DM @hardwaypod on Instagram or reach out at choosethehardway@gmail.com, all of those links are in the show notes.